US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 4 for "Clothing treatment apparatus and method for controlling clothing treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,338, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus and method for controlling clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Byungjae Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Junyoung Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Taehee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus includes: a tub; a rotating tub; a pulsator; a washing shaft connected to the pulsator; a dehydrating shaft connected to the rotating tub; a clutch mechanism transmitting rotating force to the washing shaft and the dehydrating shaft; and a clutch driver operating the clutch mechanism. The ...